Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-02-07
THE GRAND JURY.
Ten Jurors Out OF Possible Twenty
Pass Through the Trying Or.
deal Successfully.
Brother Alder Don't Go Much on PO-
lygamy, But lie Thinks It's All
Right for His NeighbOrs
An Open Yenire Issued for Fifteen
More Jurors, Returnable To-
Morrow Morning.

The February term OF the Third Dis
trict Court opened at II O'Clock this morn
ing, with full attendance OF the bar and
good number OF spectators.
The first business taken up was the
empanelfhg OF the Grand Jury for this
term. .
FIFTEEN NAMES
Were called and Mr.. Varian proceeded
with the examination:
@. II. Barratt was first examined, and
OF course, passed all right,
John t. Rich was then questioned lie
answered all the questions put until it
came to the important query: "Do you
believe it right for man to have living
and undivorced more than one wife ?"
To this Mr., Rich answered: "I've got
my own opinion about that" and upon fur
Their questioning it was elected that Mr..
Rich's Town opinion" is that it is no
ones business how many wives man
has, although he would be willing to
prosecute man who went into polygamy
| now.
John Conner OF Stockton, was then
| passed.
Thomas Carloss of this city, went down
on the same question as did Mr.. Rich,
| and was excused.
Christian Peterson OF Riverton, also
believed polygamy and unlawful cohabi-
tation right, and was excused.
George Alder, OF this city, was qualified
up to the polygamy and unlawful cohabi-
| ton question, and to that he answered {:
II haven't yet made up my mind as to
whether or not il ia right
Q.-You are Mormon?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-And you accept the doctrines OF
that faith?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-Isn't polygamy taught as one of
the doctrines?
Ayes, sir; but haven't gotten far
enough along yet to accept that. I've
been q member OF the Church for great
many years, but have never accepted
polygamy it is, however, possible that
will in the future.
Q.-Do you believe that members of
your Church do practice polygamy,
concientiously as a part OF their religion
Ayes, sir.
Q.-And do you believe it right for
them to do so?
Brother Alder faltered over this ques-
ton, but finally said that he thought it
was. He was therefore excused.
Henry Fitzhugh, w. III. Stahl, John J.
Gleason and w. B. Parker were then
| passed.
James Bleak, OF Riverton, is not citi-
zen and was therefore excused.
G. A. Dahl OF this city and Louis
Boukofsky and John Dumphy OF Park
City, were accepted.
Peter S. Condie, believed in polygamy
and was excused.
F. :. RICHARDS
Arose at this point and said that he
thought that owing to the active part
that Messrs. Gleason and Parker (the
former an ex-deputy and the latter an
ex-Penitentiary guard had taken in the
prosecutions against polygamy, he
thought it would be only right that they
should be excused.
Mr.. Varian said that while there was
no statutory reason for such move, he
would not oppose Mr.. Richards motion,
and was therefore willing that the gen
glemen should be excused.
The Court said that the gentlemen
might be excused
James Taylor and Thomas II. Wood
bury, Jr., were out and out polygamy
men, and were dropped.
j. w. Goldthwait and NJ. j. Garroty
were accepted, and John Shields, being
polygamist at heart, was excused.
Joseph Melor Joseph Marion, Walter
Steed and Alexander Cohn did not an
swer to their names.
The jurors so far accepted are, then:
@. II. Barratt, John Conner,
Henry Fitzhugh W. II. Stahl
G. A. Dahl, Louis Boukofsky,
John Dumphy, Ed. Atkins,
j. W. Goldthwaite, M. j. Garroty.
THE NEW YENIRE.
The Court then ordered that venire
OF fifteen names be drawn, and the box
was brought into court. After throwing
out the names OF persons living a great
distance from the city, the following was
the result:
Alonzo Y. Taylor, Presley Talbot,
VIM. McCurdy, Oscar Youngberg,
Oscar b. Young, @. w. Simons
H. W. Miller, Joseph Seigel,
Arthur +. Barnes, VIM. S. Mccormick,
Il. S. Woolley, Howard Sebree,
Hamilton G. Park, VIM. II. Streeper,
w. A. Rhodes.